The role of medical group practice administrators in the adoption and implementation of Medicare's physician quality reporting system

Health Care Management Review

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 145-154

  Coulam, Robert ^a   Kralewski, John ^b,c   Dowd, Bryan ^c   Gans, David ^d  

^a SIMMONS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Medica Research Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d MEDICAL GROUP MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Group Practice Administrators; Medicare; Pqrs; Quality Improvement

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; GROUP PRACTICE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MANDATORY REPORTING; MEDICARE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; STANDARDS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; FOCUS GROUPS; GROUP PRACTICE; MANDATORY REPORTING; MEDICARE; PHYSICIAN INCENTIVE PLANS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84961254876     PISSN: 03616274     EISSN: 15505030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HMR.0000000000000061     Document Type: Article

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